The Book of
Truth

Thomas O.
Mills, The Book of Truth: A Perspective on the Hopi Creation Story:

Thomas O. Mills, as a youth, went with his mother to live on the Hopi
reservation in Northeastern Arizona, where he listened closely to Hopi
storytellers and pondered the stories’ meanings. He also befriended author Frank
Waters, who in 1963 had written The Book of the Hopi with his Hopi informant
Oswald White Bear Fredericks. Their book included the Hopi Creation Story, and
thoroughly explored the Hopi ceremonial cycle and its cosmic implications. Mills
listened, read and began to draw his own original and provocative conclusions.
In his book, he seeks to track, from clues within the story, actual events and
history that may be buried within it, and how this could relate to our
future.

Mills analyzes the Hopis’ story of the “ant people” with whom they
sheltered underground during a worldwide flood, and of their migration across
the ocean to their present location, and examines other clues such as the
astronomy-based timings of ceremonials and placement of the villages, geological
history, shifts in position of the poles, and more. He postulates that the
Hopis’ history and religion is related to the early Egyptian civilization.
Looking at the architectural layout of the pyramids “through Hopi eyes,” he
finds reflections of their forms and angles in Hopi design elements. Were the
pyramids, rather than being tombs (where, Mills says, no Pharaohs were ever
found), actually placed as ballast in an attempt to stabilize the delicate
balance of the earth in its rotation? Mills suggests that the Egyptians were
aware that periodic cataclysms had caused the earth to “roll over,” and that
Egyptian murals depicting planetary movement through the zodiac point to the
time of danger. In Mills’s view, they are a warning to future generations,
similar to one found in the Hopi Creation Story. Based on a rotation disruption
cycle of 25,920 years, the 5th such event is due in the near future.

This
book, drawing together a variety of ideas that are usually considered
separately, makes stimulating reading and is good material for classroom
discussions on history, race, Hopi culture, astronomy and “myth.” Today’s Hopis
may find it intriguing. Mills’s intuitive vision should spur scientists to look
more closely into what we like to call “myths” or “stories” for their possible
basis in historical fact. And today, as we worry about climate change, our
melting polar ice caps, the earth’s delicate balance, and what it means for the
future, shouldn’t we also be figuring out whether modern technology can prevent
the earth’s next rotational shake-up, and how we plan to survive it?